Method and apparatus for associating multimedia information with location information

• US 20030112332A1
• Filed: 12/14/2001
• Published: 06/19/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ThinkLogix, LLC (Ascend Innovation Management, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Silvester, Kelan C.
• Granted Patent: US 6,943,825 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/113
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/183 for receiving images from a single remote source

Abstract

In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a system includes an input component to receive multimedia data and a locator to provide a place stamp associated with the multimedia data. For example, a camera may include a global positioning system to provide a place stamp associated with a picture to indicate the location at which the picture was taken.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

an input component to receive an image;

a locator to provide a place stamp associated with the image;

memory; and

a processor to store the image and the place stamp in the memory in response to a triggering event.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the input component includes a lens of a digital camera or video camera, and the image is a still or video image, respectively.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the locator includes a global positioning system.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the place stamp includes an indication of a latitude and longitude of the system.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component to determine a distance between the system and at least a portion of the image.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the place stamp includes an indication of a latitude and longitude of the portion of the image.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the triggering event is the pressing of a button to take a picture or video.

8. A method comprising:

providing a handheld camera with a locator to provide a place stamp; and

enabling a user of the camera to store the place stamp associated with an image captured by the user using the camera.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein enabling the user to store the place stamp includes providing the camera with a button to take a picture or video and to automatically store the place stamp.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein providing the camera with a locator includes integrating a global positioning system into the camera.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing the camera with an output port and software, the output port to download the image and the place stamp to a computer system, the software, when executed by the computer system, to convert the place stamp from a first format to a second format.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the first format includes latitude and longitude information, and the second format includes nomenclature information.

13. A machine-readable medium including machine-readable instructions that, if executed by a computer system, cause the computer system to perform a method comprising:

downloading an image and a place stamp associated with the image from a camera;

converting the place stamp from a first format into a second format; and

storing the image and the place stamp in the second format.

14. The medium of claim 13, wherein the first format includes latitude and longitude information, and the second format includes nomenclature information.

15. The medium of claim 13, wherein converting the place stamp includes accessing a remotely located server via an internet, and converting latitude and longitude information into nomenclature information.

16. The medium of claim 15, wherein the nomenclature information includes a city name.

17. A system comprising:

an input component to receive multimedia data;

a locator to provide a place stamp associated with the multimedia data;

memory; and

a processor to store the multimedia data and the place stamp in the memory.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the multimedia data includes audio or video data.

19. The system of claim 17, further comprising program code that, when executed, causes the system to convert the place stamp from latitude and longitude information into nomenclature information.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the locator includes a global positioning system.